Word: gridley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cockney slavey only to get this beguiling if hokey mystery-comedy off to a start. As Mrs. Carlye Hardwicke, an American, she owns the stately London town house, though she seems to have mislaid Mr. Hardwicke. Jack Lemmon, her tenant, is a U.S. State Department official named Bill Gridley, up from the sand lots of Saudi Arabia to the diplomatic big league of the American embassy in London. The neighbors, and Scotland Yard, have their own ideas about Mr. Hardwicke. "She killed him,"say they...